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EPA Threatens Man with $16 Million Fine Over Pond

09-02-2015 • Prison Planet.com

"Threatening me with ruinous fines even though I've done nothing wrong is extortionate"

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Fast Food Worker Refuses to Serve Cop

09-02-2015 • Prison Planet.com

Example of growing animosity toward law enforcement.

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Guantanamo Bay Prisons Could Be Moving To A Town Near You According To New Pentagon Plan

09-02-2015 • True Activist

"These site surveys are necessary to determine potential locations for detaining a limited number of individuals in the United States and to assess the costs associated with doing so. Prudent planning and site visits are necessary in order to asses

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Ohio Police Officer Caught On Tape-

09-02-2015 • jonathanturley.org

-Telling Driver He Was Pulled After He Looked The Officer In The Eye

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West Point Professor Says U.S. Military Should Target Legal Critics of War on Terror

08-31-2015 • truthdig.com

West Point Professor Says U.S. Military Should Target Legal Critics of War on Terror

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Police traffic stops: The do's, don'ts and musts

08-31-2015 • azcentral.com

The traffic stop and subsequent death of Sandra Bland, who authorities say hanged herself in a Texas jail three days after a physical confrontation with a state trooper, has reignited the national debate over police conduct and led to other questions

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Police Departments Use Secret Tool to Spy on Mobile Phones

08-31-2015 • http://www.thenewamerican.com, by C. Mitchell Sha

Local police all over the country are using highly sophisticated, very expensive surveillance tools to capture information from cell tower traffic from the innocent and the guilty alike.

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Citizens Taking Video of Police See Themselves Facing Arrest

08-29-2015 • abcnews.go.com

Thomas Demint's voice is heard only briefly on the eight-minute video he took of police officers arresting two of his friends, and body-slamming their mother. "I'm videotaping this, sir," he tells an officer. "I'm just videotaping this."

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Vester Lee Flanagan, Social Justice Avenger

08-29-2015 • freedominourtime.blogspot.com

A Communist is merely a socialist in a hurry. Vester Lee Flanagan, by his own description, was an impatient social justice warrior.

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Seventeen-year-old sentenced to 11 years in prison for pro-ISIS Twitter account

08-28-2015 • theverge.com

Today, a federal court sentenced a 17-year-old Virginia resident named Ali Shukri Amin to 11 years and four months in prison for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS.

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Imperial America

08-28-2015 • AntiWar.com

Or: Have we gone crazy?

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Jerry Seinfeld Hilariously Trolls Cops After they Shut Down his Son's Lemonade Stand

08-27-2015 • http://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Matt Agorist

To raise funds for a local baby clothes charity, funnyman Jerry Seinfeld and family set up a lemonade stand.

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Drug War Insanity: Small Army Raids a Man's Home Over an Expired Medical Marijuana Card

08-27-2015 • thefreethoughtproject.com, By Justin Gardner

Attorneys are approaching Gregg Levendoski to defend his case after the medical marijuana patient was subject to a militarized raid over two dozen marijuana plants. 60 local, state and federal officers, including SWAT teams, stormed the property and

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DoD manual allows journalists to be held as 'belligerents'

08-26-2015 • apnews.myway.com

New Defense Department guidelines allow commanders to punish journalists and treat them as "unprivileged belligerents" if they believe journalists are sympathizing or cooperating with the enemy.

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Police Go Door-To-Door to Give "Friendly" Reminder to Gun Owners (VIDEO)

08-26-2015 • The Daily Sheeple

When the Gun-Free School Zone Act was signed into law in 1990, it effectively created mini constitution free zones within 1000 feet of every public, private, or parochial school.

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San Jose Considers License Plate Readers To Go On Garbage Trucks

08-25-2015 • http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton

Deputized dumpsters

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Timothy Leary Explains the Police State, "Every State in the World, America included...

08-25-2015 • http://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Jay Syrmopoul

Timothy Leary Explains the Police State, "Every State in the World, America included, is a Mafia"

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Ryan Escochea: Man Arrested After Preventing Potential Rape

08-23-2015 • https://www.youtube.com, Marc Victor

Ryan witnessed a naked man on top of an intoxicated half naked female who had earlier rejected the man's repeated advances.

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Ruby Ridge 23rd Anniv. of Federal Killings

08-21-2015 • http://jimbovard.com

Federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho began 23 years ago today. Below are some articles I wrote on this case in 1995. Also included is the counterattack on my Wall Street Journal piece from FBI director Louis Freeh

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Local Government Larceny

08-20-2015 • http://www.thedailybell.com

Many local municipalities experience budgetary pressure. Rather than raise taxes or cut services in response, things that are often politically unpalatable, they turn to law enforcement and courts to make up the difference in tickets and fines.

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United States Drops In Overall Freedom Ranking

08-19-2015 • dailycaller.com

A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S.